Holocaust victims seek compensation from German death camp railways

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The last remaining Polish victims of the transport trains that took millions to Nazi death camps have mounted a claim for compensation after learning that Germany’s state rail company is planning to run again on Polish rails.

Some 7,000 survivors, all pensioners, are calling for Deutsche Bahn to help to pay their medicine and care bills from the profits of the company’s expansion, which was made possible by the deregulation of rail competition across Europe from January 1.

Deutsche Bahn, which is owned by the German Government, is the successor to the wartime Reichsbahn, which charged its coerced passengers for